I am editing the question with my attempt on running sudo apt-get upgrade
I can not upgrade the files after running that command. It tells me that it found files to upgrade but says 'failed to fetch' every file to found. Does that clarify my post? Still new to this sorry and my college professor is the issue of not explaining clearly and lack of knowledge.
Some commands (such as apt/apt-get (by default on Ubuntu) require you to prefix them with sudo, so that they run as the superuser (Ubuntu equivalent of a Windows administrator, ish). There are a few exceptions, such as if you are running as a root shell (indicated usually by your prompt ending with a # instead of a $, but running sudo apt-get upgrade should resolve the issue.
